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Mashup Score: 2Ballard predicted the collapse of the middle class - 5 month(s) ago
“…Cheap holidays, over-priced housing, educations that no longer buy security… …[The middle classes] are the new proletariat, like factory workers a hundred years ago… …Anyone earning less than £300,000 a year scarcely counts. You’re just a prole in a three-button suit…” These lines from J.G. Ballard’s 2003 novel Millennium People were thought-provoking, yet not wholly convincing 21 years ago. They have, however, become more and more plausi ble with the passing of time. In a development whose causes and
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Mashup Score: 0America should look like Gus Walz - 5 month(s) ago
Whether in Chicago last week or Milwaukee last month, the obscurity of American politics these days makes one turn to illuminations from the past. Trump expatiating lengthily on his injured ear during his speech at the Republican Convention in Milwaukee called to mind some lines from Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. Returning wounded and victorious from war, Coriolanus enter s a Rome searching for a new Consul. The people need to be convinced that Coriolanus is the man for the job. Among other things, they
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America should look like #GusWalz : His display of vulnerability revealed the nation's flaws https://t.co/842PH3mgiP via #LeeSiegel & @unherd
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Mashup Score: 185Will US colleges face a reckoning over Covid? - 6 month(s) ago
Within weeks of being sent off campus in the spring of 2020, university students in the US began filing lawsuits. These lawsuits relied mostly on a “breach of contract” premise (i.e. that universities charged tuition and fees for in-person education which they were not providing) or educational malpractice (remote learning is a pale imitation of […]Read More…
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Philip Marks & @LeslieBienen correctly predicted 6 months ago that US courts would hold colleges responsible for substandard teaching in 2020. Universities should remind professors about their teaching obligations & think twice about shutting down again. https://t.co/eddLw37w0q
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Mashup Score: 0Israel's economy floundering as Middle East conflict escalates - 6 month(s) ago
Often described as a start-up nation and a powerhouse of innovation, it is hard to deny that Israel has created the most potent high-tech economy in the Middle East. While many of its neighbours depend on exporting fossil fuels, over 40% of Israel’s exports are in the technology sector. Yet news that the country’s stocks […]Read More…
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Israeli economy flounders as Middle East conflict escalates https://t.co/31TzHAzzUa
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Mashup Score: 2How astrology fooled womankind - 6 month(s) ago
It’s Friday afternoon, and I am catatonic on TikTok. It’s boiling outside but I’m about to pull a Lazarus, flopping on to the red-hot 344 bus and braving what promises to be a punishing night out. God, do I have to? I scroll — and a groovy Gandalf type pops up on my feed. “If you stay in on Friday night, you’re outta ya mind.” I sit up. “Venus is trine — 120 degrees apart — to the North Node. The North Node is associated with our destiny. If you’re single and you’re sat at home with the roundest, most
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How astrology fooled womankind https://t.co/Zp5r1cvWKQ via @poppy_sowerby @jonathanstea @EdzardErnst
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Mashup Score: 0The flaws in the Lucy Letby case - 6 month(s) ago
Appearing for the Crown in a murder trial he was hoping to lose, a senior colleague once quipped: “People want to know how we defend the guilty, but the really tricky thing is prosecuting the innocent.” I’ve only done it once, to my knowledge. And the lesson in the power and contagion of confirmation bias has stayed with me. The defendant, picked up in a routine traffic stop, denied being the man who’d carried out an inside-job fraud at the shop where he’d worked some years earlier. His name, ID and
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The flaws in the #LucyLetby case https://t.co/zD1ylHvu8N via @adamhpking
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Mashup Score: 878Did the Covid inquiry report just admit lockdown was a mistake? - 7 month(s) ago
The Covid inquiry has this afternoon published a full report on its first module, assessing the resilience and preparedness of the UK’s pandemic response. It has so far been met with apparently predetermined headlines of how the UK Government failed its citizens by “preparing for the wrong pandemic”, and that the country was “ill-prepared”. The […]Read More…
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The UK Covid inquiry report just released is a "wholesale attack on the lockdown approach" https://t.co/qnENDgzHgJ
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Mashup Score: 4The New Norm: another failed anti-woke comedy - 7 month(s) ago
“Make America funny again” is the strapline for The New Norm, the “first animated sitcom on X” (formerly Twitter). The mini-pilot was posted online yesterday, featuring unshowy animation, well-designed characters and setting, and decent voice performances. Technically, it’s fine. Unfortunately, the script is excruciating. The conceit of The New Norm is that it is a […]Read More…
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The New Norm: another failed anti-woke comedy https://t.co/fs1KhUR0bH https://t.co/CMgC1hLxsm
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Mashup Score: 2023Anthony Fauci is finally facing his reckoning - 8 month(s) ago
This week Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the US Covid response, sat through a two-day closed-door US congressional hearing aimed at uncovering vital facts about his role in gain-of-function research in Wuhan, scientific censorship and the societal harms of Covid policies. A public hearing is scheduled for later this year. Chairman of the US Select […]Read More…
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Dr. Fauci did not remember 174 times during his 2022 deposition for our 1st Amendment case. In January 2023 he did not remember over 100 times. Does he remember anything today? https://t.co/J40e7r0ceN
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Mashup Score: 41US Government fails in attempt to shut down censorship case - 9 month(s) ago
Since December of last year, conservative American media outlets the Daily Wire and the Federalist have been suing the US Department of State for allegedly throttling their journalism in violation of the First Amendment. This week, in the lawsuit’s latest development, a judge, Jeremy Kernodle, denied the federal government’s request to have the case dismissed, […]Read More…
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RT @ProfMJCleveland: Over @unherd https://t.co/W52qSIZa5I @LaurenDuganTV covers @NCLAlegal win over State Dep't's attempt to end @realDail…
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#JamesGrahamBallard predicted the collapse of the middle class: The future will be neo-feudal https://t.co/2aqCPKwNIN via @Heghoulian https://t.co/XqowiCmHpZ